Portugal's national epic Os Lusíadas by Luís de Camões is first published.

Literature and music Torquato Tasso made Godfrey the hero of his epic poem Gerusalemme Liberata .

Beowulf ( in Old English ) is an Old English epic poem consisting of 3182 alliterative long lines.

Thus Ólafs ríma Haraldssonar denotes an epic about Ólafr Haraldsson in one ríma, while Núma rímur are a multi part epic on Numa Pompilius.

William Morris's epic poem Sigurd the Volsung (1876) is a major retelling of the story in English verse.

A late interpolation to the epic poem Mahabharata says that the sage Vyasa () asked Ganesha to serve as his scribe to transcribe the poem as he dictated it to him.

Ithaca was the name of the island home of Odysseus in the epic Ancient Greek poem the Odyssey by Homer.

Cantar de Mio Cid The epic poem Cantar de Mio Cid was written about a real man his battles, conquests, and daily life.

For his magnum opus, the monumental opera Les Troyens , Berlioz turned to Virgil's epic poem The Aeneid .

Contemporary popular culture An epic science fiction adaptation tribute by acclaimed author Dan Simmons titled Ilium was released in 2003.

He is author of The Knight in the Panther's Skin (ვეფხისტყაოსანი, Vepxist'q'aosani ), the Georgian national epic poem.

These traits first appeared in Gonçalves Dias' epic poem I Juca Pirama , but soon became widespread.

The epic poem Skanderbeg's Story retells the life of the Albanian national hero George Kastrioti Skanderbeg intertwined with imaginary episodes.

Written by Aurelius Clemens Prudentius, a Christian governor who died around 410 A.D., it entails the battle between good virtues and evil vices.

The Portuguese national epic, the Lusíadas of Luís Vaz de Camões, largely concerns Vasco da Gama's voyages.

Adventurer and poet Luís de Camões (c. 1524 1580) wrote the epic poem Os Lusíadas (The Lusiads), with Virgil's Aeneid as his main influence.

Old and Middle English The name middangeard occurs half a dozen times in the Old English epic poem Beowulf, and is the same word as Midgard in Old Norse.

Another ancient written document is an epic poem in the Arabic script titled Utendi wa Tambuka ( The History of Tambuka ) it is dated 1728.

The 19th century poet Tommaso Grossi also wrote an epic poem, which was the basis of Giuseppe Verdi's opera I Lombardi alla prima crociata .

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He wrote at a time of religious flux and political upheaval, and is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost (1667), written in blank verse.

From the fifteenth century onwards, he appears as a central character in a sequence of Italian verse romances (as Orlando ), including Morgante by Luigi Pulci, Orlando Innamorato by Matteo Maria Boiardo, and Orlando furioso by Ludovico Ariosto.

I mean, that was epic.

Their history was recorded in the Tale of the Children of Húrin or Narn i Chîn Húrin , which was claimed by Tolkien to be the ultimate source of the published writings.

The creation epic.

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The name for syphilis is derived from Fracastoro's 1530 epic poem in three books, Syphilis sive morbus gallicus ( Syphilis or The French Disease ), about a shepherd boy named Syphilus who insulted Greek god Apollo and was punished by that god with a horrible disease.

His diction is an epic.

What do you call an epic?

What you call an epic.

This is a newer poem, a brand new poem.

The Babylon, Babylonians have their epic.

Does she qualify for an epic?

Finally epic meaning.

Legacy The Middle High German epic poem Nibelungenlied is based largely on the old stories, which were commonly known in all of the Germanic lands from the early Middle Ages on, but reworks the material into a courtly medieval setting.

The Tales of Ensign Stål (Swedish original title Fänrik Ståls sägner, Finnish Vänrikki Stoolin tarinat, or year 2007 translation Vänrikki Stålin tarinat) is an epic poem written in Swedish by the Finland Swedish author Johan Ludvig Runeberg, the national poet of Finland.

I want to be on the one that leads to awesome.

It's a poem.

The poem?

The oldest surviving epic poem is the Epic of Gilgamesh , from the 3rd millennium BC in Sumer (in Mesopotamia, now Iraq), which was written in cuneiform script on clay tablets and, later, papyrus.

A false epic, one of no significance.

And you say, Yeah, I'm familiar, I've done legacy code enhancements, their eyes will get big, or so we would like. So, what's an epic failure?

The story of Emperor Antoku and his mother's family became the subject of the Kamakura period epic poem The Tale of the Heike (Heike is an alternate reading of the Japanese characters for House of the Taira ).

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